Our team and facilitation services.
Embodied Strategy & Creativity.
You know when you’ve found the winning idea. You can feel a buzzing of excitement and the satisfaction of knowing that you’ve got it. Our workshops use a variety of embodiment tools to tap into the creativity that is hiding in your team. We just have to kindly ask each team member to dip into their bodies and listen to the wisdom that it whispers there. Whatever strategic problem your team is tackling, insights and intuition gained from embodiment will speed up your design thinking process. And you'll come away with more innovative and sustainable ideas.
I co-facilitate embodied creativity offerings with Chiara Borrello. View our flyer, including our 5S Process: Safety, Sensing, Sharing, Synchronizing, Strategy. We are especially motivated to work with teams tackling the climate crisis and other injustices.
Team Tuning.
To tune a piano, we tune each key. Similarly, in team tuning, each person does an embodied attuning. Using embodied tools like Focusing and Theory U, team members work through a stuck issue or resourcing exercise to build resiliency. For example, growing courage or compassion. Team tuning works for small or large groups and results in team synchronization around your objective. Workshops can be customized for a variety of topics, including stress reduction, mental health, embodied leadership, deep listening skills, shared values, and psychological safety. In depth pitch correction provides an eight-week attunement program for team transformation, resulting in team flow and inspired creativity and innovation.
Taste of Embodied Creativity & Stress Reduction for your Team
30 minute introductory online session
This 30 minute introductory session of the PUPA process has an emphasis on pausing and letting something intuitive and creative come via the body. Together, we’ll do two exercises: 1) Getting embodied: grounding in the body by recalling a time we felt calm and awe in nature, 2) Creating: working with the body’s wisdom to carry forward a stuck project we are working on. This introductory session, delivered on zoom, is a way for your team to tap into their intuitive bodily knowing and reduce stress, while at work and together. They’ll leave in a relaxed state with fresh insights!
Our Clients
Client Testimonials
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I want to thank the Committee and in particular Annette for steering us through this and having the guts to just jump in off the deep end and do it. And it was a tremendous success. I was really, really amazed, you know almost astonished that we could have this kind of conversation, this kind of sharing happen over Zoom… it's just really remarkable…. I've learned a ton just in sitting and listening, flitting. I guess, I was a bit of a butterfly going between rooms and a bit of a bee because every now and again: oh I just heard Sean say something and maybe you guys should, over here, think about that.
William Gage, Associate Vice-President, Teaching & Learning, York University, on the Open Space Technology event facilitated May 6, 2021 for the Open Education Steering Committee.
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Annette is wonderful to work with, lovely, extremely organized and also very creative. She led our whole team meetings masterfully so that they were always productive. She introduced us to a new type of event (Open Forums/Open Space Technology events) which allowed our group to make new connexions, find new ideas, and develop long term partnerships. Finally, Annette is an incredible quick-thinking problem-solver. I highly recommend her services!
Muriel Péguret, Co-lead of the Camerise Project (FSL hub) and Associate Professor, York University
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Mirela Cherciov, Co-lead of the Camerise Project
Annette's vision, remarkable attention to detail, quickness to learn all the intricate functionalities of a new platform were instrumental in successfully organizing our Open Forum event. The Open Forum was our first important community outreach event and a way to launch our ideas in the FSL Community and attract the interest of teachers and language consultants in the hopes of them joining our team. Annette's smooth implementation of the Open Forum idea and philosophy made a strong impact in the community, and we were able to expand our team with key people in the field. As a result, Camerise, through its repertory and initiatives, has grown and has consolidated its position in the FSL teaching and learning context.
Annette has continued to be part the Camerise team in the role of team meeting facilitator and strategist. For me personally, I always appreciated her advice and perspective because I knew they were rooted in her extensive experience with a variety of projects and a deep understanding and knowledge of both the academic and corporate worlds.
Thank you, Annette, for your presence, support, and guidance on the Camerise journey.
Other Services
Embodied Leadership with Private Focusing and Thinking at the Edge
Dive into your embodied leadership and creativity one-on-one. By having a session (or more), we arrive at your creative edge and move your forward.
Embodied Communications
Communications strategy, message development and media training, to find the exact right words. So you can be authentic to your voice and your endeavour, while speaking confidently and calmly.
Facilitation & Speaking
In addition to facilitating creativity and strategy sessions (see above), I facilitate large group meetings using Dynamic Facilitation and Open Space Technology (unconferences). I also do wellbeing talks.
“The benefit, of using the OST method for facilitating stakeholder
engagement, was that it did not presuppose which aspects of a problem
would be of interest to the group, or who would attend. There is an implicit
understanding that everyone has a unique understanding, and perspective,
to bring to the problem, as well as a piece of the solution. By hearing these
multiple, sometimes, contradictory views, a clearer picture can emerge,
followed by the development of novel solutions. ”